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The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has lifted the ban placed on the Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the Nigerian airspace.
In a statement signed by the NCAA Director-General, Capt. Musa Nuhu, the agency said the approval was effective February 12.acMinister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, had announced a ban on the operations of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in Nigeria after two accidents of Lion Air flight 610, and an Ethiopian Airlines flight 320, crashed few minutes after takeoff.
The statement received on Sunday detailed how the United States Federal Aviation Administration dealt with the matter till the ban on the plane model was lifted.
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)
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Mon Feb 22 2021
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has lifted the ban on Boeing 737 Max Aircraft in the Nigerian Airspace from February 12, 2021.
This is coming nearly two years after the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, banned the aircraft type following two fatal crashes involving the aircraft in 2018 and the Ethiopian Airlines’ flight at Addis Ababa in March 2019, with 346 people killed in the crashes.
The model was grounded globally but in November 2020, the United States aviation regulatory body, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted approval for the Boeing 737 Max aircraft to commence flight operations.
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